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From: killerb_0187
Date: Mon Nov 4, 2002 10:50am
Subject: Re: numb hand
--- In a previous message adil263 wrote:
>
> > Also, as with most of Derren's tricks, the context is extremely
> > important (here it was the amputation theatre, so we're told);
this
> > would play on the victims' subconscious to the extent that any
> > suggestion related to the field of medicine/surgery would be
> > heightened. Hence the "numb" hand.
> >
> > ...I think!
> >
> >
> > Tim
> >
>
> i hear what u sayin, but he did this same trick again at a radio
> station on a live broadcast on Radio 1. This is exactly what he
said:
>
> "do me a favour, just put ur hand on the desk, just there a minute.
> im not gonna hypnotise you, im just going to show you something
that
> is interesting, its a kind of psychological trick. ok? just press
> your hand into the table. look me right in the eye, when i take my
> hand off yours, you will not be able to lift your hand off. the
more
> you try to unstick it from the table, the tighter it sticks. you
will
> try as hard as you can to lift it, but you can't. the more you try,
> the more it keeps on sticking..."
>
> the woman could not move her hand from here on. after this, derren
> told her that when she is able to lift her hand, she will have
> forgotton her name. lol, it was quite funny!
>
> but how do you explain that? was it hypnotism?
No ofcourse not. He even said "I haven't hypnotised you, you're wide-
awake, you're just sat here". Something along the lines of that. I'm
not sure, I think maybe it has rapid induction involved in some way
perhaps??
